A String Representation of Distinguished Names
This is a gem for interacting with the string representation of distinguished names, per the RFC-1779 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1779.txt)
It will allow you to transform a distinguished name that is passed from Apache in a particular format into another format.
DistinguishedName::Transform.slashify("CN=Welker.Wes.83,OU=people,OU=Patriots,O=NFL,C=US") # => "/C=US/O=NFL/OU=Patriots/OU=people/CN=Welker.Wes.83" DistinguishedName::Transform.ldapify("/C=US/O=NFL/OU=Patriots/OU=people/CN=Welker.Wes.83") # => "CN=Welker.Wes.83,OU=people,OU=Patriots,O=NFL,C=US"
It will also leave distinguished names 'unconverted', but still validate them
DistinguishedName::Transform.slashify("/C=US/O=NFL/OU=Patriots/OU=people/CN=Welker.Wes.83") # => "/C=US/O=NFL/OU=Patriots/OU=people/CN=Welker.Wes.83" DistinguishedName::Transform.ldapify("CN=Welker.Wes.83,OU=people,OU=Patriots,O=NFL,C=US") # => "CN=Welker.Wes.83,OU=people,OU=Patriots,O=NFL,C=US"
It will raise an OpenSSL::X509::NameError if you give it an invalid Distinguished Name